Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and Uses (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Book 55)

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. Part I 15 Discourse strategies and discourse types 17 Text production and dynamic text semantics 37 Towards probabilistic interpretations 53 A functional model of the system of sentence structures 77 Constraining the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources during text generation: Towards a computational instantiation of register theory 95 A treatment of raising and control in systemic grammar 121 The concept of rank in systemic linguistics 135 Part II 153 Information flow in English conversation: A new approach to the Given – New distinction 155 Minimal exchanges in English discourse 183 The interpenetration of language as code and language as behavior: A description of evaluative statements 207 The static and dynamic choices of responding: Toward the process of building social reality by the developmentally disordered 227 First- and second-order registers in education 249 Part III 271 Functional theory, scientism, and altruism: A critique of functional linguistics and its applications to writing 273 Grammar, technocracy, and the noun: Technocratic values and cognitive linguistics 295 Nominalization in science and humanities: Distilling knowledge and scaffolding text 321 From clinical report to clinical story: Two ways of writing about a medical case 353 Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts 383 Another perspective on coherence and cohesive harmony 399 Cohesion coherence: Scientific texts 429 The use of systemic linguistics to describe student summaries at university level 445 Non-native writing and native revising of scientific articles 471 Index 507 TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Many linguists have been good at hedging the most fundamental questions that can be posed about communication.